October 25, 2012

Why editors reject your dog poems

"A few months after the loss of my dear dog I composed a poem, which I sent to several Magazines, but it was refused by all. You see Magazine Editors have no feelings for dogs, or are prejudiced in favour of their own dogs, and because I spoke in my poem so highly of my dog, they were jealous, and would not hear a word about Wow-wow." — Sabine Baring-Gould, in the 1886 collection "Just One More Tale."